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George Orwell: Books vs. Cigarettes

It is difficult to establish any relationship between the price of books and the value one gets out of them... There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later: and the cost, in terms of money, may be the same in each case.